Annand now had the "Curse Binding" of the "Eternals," which allowed him to feel the specific direction of the Rotting Man at any given mont.
Although he couldn’t judge the distance, he could only determine the direction.
...But, without a doubt, when the direction pointed diagonally downward, it ant the Rotting Man was definitely in the Underground City.
And also to the south of Noah.
That should be underneath the United Kingdom. Even if it’s not the Saltpeter Ranch, it’s probably in that direction.
After all, the Rotting Man, no matter how foolish, wouldn’t dive headfirst into a volcano’s mouth. Although there indeed was a volcano in that direction... which was the active volcano where the Magma Forbidden Tower stood.
And the Bone-nurturing Ground was not far from the Saltpeter Ranch.
By the ti Annan encountered Professor Grey.
Perhaps, he might even get to see the Rotting Man.
A half-god like the Rotting Man, who hadn’t even completed the sublimation ceremony, wouldn’t dare to ss with a Disabling Wizard, not even if he had the guts to do so.
Because Disabling Wizards truly do not fear death.
The soft are afraid of the hard, the hard are afraid of the ruthless, and the ruthless are afraid of those who are reckless...
The Disabling Wizards of the Magma Forbidden Tower were really the "I’m warning you, my brain isn’t quite right" kind. Twisted Spells, considered trump cards by the average wizard and believed to significantly increase the erosion rate upon use, were just routine skills to them...
"However, it really is quite a coincidence."
Annand thought to himself, narrowing his eyes slightly.
Aside from the Winter nobles calculating with Annand and Vasily, fated to die on the spot the mont their grandmother woke up.
All of his current enemies... seed to be underground.
This journey might just result in quite a few familiar faces...
After that, Annan didn’t rush to leave.
Before going to the Silver Baron to inquire about the Charioteer.
Annan first followed Salvatore to et Tan Juan, who had just completed rebirth and was only a few days old.
The newly reborn Tan Juan still possessed the mories of his past life.
Obviously, Tan Juan did not recognize Annan.
After all, Annan had impersonated him and taken his na after Tan Juan’s murder... But Tan Juan could still understand language. Under the Crow’s introduction, Tan Juan, who in his infant state couldn’t speak, finally t Annan.
He widened his deep blue eyes and seed to want to say sothing, stretching out his hand towards Annan with effort.
And Annan simply smiled, took him in his arms, and hugged him for a while.
Just as he had said before, Annan gave his own sword to Tan Juan.
By the ti Annan had beco a Gold-tier... Or rather, even before that when Annan had transford into the Frost Scaled Dragon, his sword had already changed from purple to a deep purple precious cursed object due to the long-term absorption of the frost elent. With Isaac’s further crafting, its properties had been further strengthened.
It now had not only the high-tier cursed object’s usual "Spiritual Body striking and attribute damage" attribute... but also acquired three unique traits: "Blinding Light," "Snow Eater," and "Will of Victory Guide."
"Blinding Light" caused the sword to emit a strong glare when swung, which the wielder couldn’t see; "Snow Eater" allowed it to absorb attacks that had low-intensity cold damage to repair itself, usable for blocking, cutting spells, or actively using spells to restore the edge of the weapon; and the most crucial "Will of Victory Guide," granted the wielder a once-a-day "Will of Victory."
This could indeed be considered an early-phase divine weapon.
If translated into ga language, it ans "gain an equivalent to 50% physical damage’s cold damage," "when striking a Spiritual Body, it wouldn’t cause physical damage but would convert damage 100% into cold damage," "receive 30% less cold damage," "after blocking cold damage, attacks are guaranteed to deal maximum damage for a few seconds," and a once-daily "on this attack/Parry/dodge, gain a temporary bonus to strength or agility equal to the will attribute."
Know that even the Swordsman’s ability "Full Force Strike" could only increase damage by 30% on the next attack; the Berserker’s "Berserk" could only once gain a 100% strength bonus.
But this ability could be used not only for strength but also to enhance agility.
However, the greatest alteration Isaac made to it...
Was putting a sheath over the blade of the sword.
—To be precise, he fitted a staff as a sheath.
The gemstone on this staff was just sothing Annan picked randomly. After a simple fabrication by Isaac, it could reduce the casting cost of bronze-tier Disabling Spells’ by 50% and enhance them by about 20%.
Although, in reality, it was typically only Disabling Wizards who favored using staves and orbs... at most, add a Decree Wizard.
Staves did indeed exist in this world.
Very early on, Annan had seen the weapon "Spell Orb" in the witch-hunting instance.
Its essence is that of a floating turret.
While the Tri-Siren, in essence, is a type of staff.
The main function of a staff is to reduce the cost of casting spells—so it is actually not used as a battlefield weapon, but as a tool.
For example, when sculpting wizards are building structures or idol wizards are applying buffs or healing, holding a staff would make it a bit easier...
Apart from Disability Wizards, who prefer heavy lee weapons capable of killing with one blow, only so wizards who specialize in the School of Prophets learn swordsmanship.
This is also because the spells from the School of Prophets really lack offensive power.
Transmutation Wizards fight bare-handed. Even having both hands free isn’t quite enough—they need to handle their pre-transmutation materials, occasionally gulp down a potion, and maintain casting gestures...
Sculpting Wizards also fight bare-handed during combat, as their attack range is far too great, but they still need to stay mobile. Therefore, weapons would only be a burden.
So Sculpting Wizards wield shields, and so schools of Sculpting Wizards use crossbows—not to shoot elental arrows but as an aiming and guiding tool to shoot signal flares for positioning and to reduce ntal strain.
Soul Reaping Wizards cast spells with looks and hand gestures and wouldn’t hold any weapons—unless they plan to disguise themselves as warriors and suddenly mind-control the enemy when their guard is down.
Of course, there has been a new trend in recent years...
Wizards have begun to fancy guns.
In The Holy Nation, so wizards have even further developed shotguns, pistols, and sleeve guns.
This kind of weapon was once used by the Hands of Winter to hunt down wizards: A group of people would cast a control skill from a distance, immobilize the target, then several would jump out and open fire.
Of course, this was partly because the shooting accuracy of the age was not high enough, and the range was not far enough...
Later, it was the wizards from the School of Prophets who discovered the marvelous use of this weapon—its trajectory speed was fast enough. This ant that if they could calculate the opponent’s trajectory and their bullet’s firing path, they would be a sharpshooter who never misses.
Instead of using prophecy spells to predict the opponent’s movents, then countering, parrying, it’s better to just line up an auto-aim shot...
Tan Juan would most likely beco a wizard in the future.
A bronze-tier wizard, if he used Will of Victory—he could instantly gain super-high agility attributes surpassing that of a bronze-tier stealth operative.
In gaming terms, agility attributes determine reaction speed, parry rate, dodge rate, and hit rate, not movent speed. It is actually strength and constitution attributes that determine movent speed.
So, the following scenario might occur in the future:
An enemy assassin finally avoids the surrounding traps and marks, getting close to Tan Juan. Then all of a sudden, Tan Juan, dressed like a mage, shakes off the surprise and, with a series of abnormally agile movents like a gymnastics team, avoids the backstab and incoming arrows. He then pulls an extrely good sword from his staff and chops off the head of the dazed assassin.
Given the low lethality of Disabling School spells, perhaps when Tan Juan reaches the silver tier, one spell won’t be as damaging as one brute force strike...
In that case, his combat thod could only be "immobilize the enemy then close combat attack."
—It can be said to be very much in the spirit of Winter and quite orthodox for a Disability Wizard.
Just like the combat thod when he was disguised as Tan Juan!
It’s just that Tan Juan doesn’t have the Frost Sword Technique.
But with this weapon... the effect is probably about the sa.
Thinking of this made Annan so happy that he simply beca the godfather to the child.
Although afterward, he felt that maybe this wasn’t such a good idea.
After all, as the "Crow on the Crown," the Geraint family couldn’t possibly be too closely associated with the Duke of Winter.
But surprisingly, the old Crow was happy about it and showed no objections, as if it was all according to the rules.
So Annan imdiately guessed... this old immortal had probably figured out sothing.
Such as his relationship with Kafney. Such as Annan’s next plans. And the subsequent world situation...
Although usually silent and seemingly indifferent, this old man was indeed smart.
Afterward, Annan also learned about Tan Juan’s new na from the old Crow.
Officially, Tan Juan Geraint was dead. This was a newborn with no public connections to Tan Juan. Although those related by blood to Tan Juan knew this was Tan Juan resurrected... the na "Tan Juan" was already deceased in society.
His new na was Augustus.
—Augustus Geraint.
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